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" When I was in high school and college, I thought everybody could think in pictures. And my first inkling to my thinking was even different was when I was in college and I read an article about, you know, some scientist said that the caveman could not have designed tools until they had language. "

Temple Grandin

School

College

Thinking

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" From a scientific standpoint, Aspergers and autism are one syndrome. Aspergers is part of the autism spectrum, not a separate disorder. "

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" Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind. "

Temple Grandin

Mind

Pictures

" What I've tried to do is combine both my personal experiences with scientific research. I like to cross the divide between the personal world and the scientific world. "

Temple Grandin

World

Research

" I'm a visual thinker, not a language-based thinker. My brain is like Google Images. "

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Temple Grandin

Parents

Good

" I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me. "

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Mother

Science

" Computerized medical records will enable statistical analysis to be used to determine which treatments are most effective. "

" Language just gradually came in, one or two stressed words a time. Before then, I would just scream. I couldn't talk. I couldn't get my words out. So the only way I could tell someone what I wanted was to scream. If I didn't want to wear a hat, the only way I knew to communicate was screaming and throwing it on the floor. "

" Autism is an extremely variable disorder. "

" And while we are on the subject of medication you always need to look at risk versus benefit. "

" I was fascinated with optical illusions. "

" The thing about being autistic is that you gradually get less and less autistic, because you keep learning, you keep learning how to behave. It's like being in a play; I'm always in a play. "

" Who do you think made the first stone spears? The Asperger guy. If you were to get rid of all the autism genetics, there would be no more Silicon Valley. "

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Temple Grandin

Divide

Personal

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" My grandfather was an engineer who invented the automatic pilot for airplanes. "

" I've always thought of myself as a cattle-handling specialist, a college professor first; autism is secondary. "

" If you have autism in the family history, you still vaccinate. Delay it a bit, space them out. "

" My mind works like Google for images. You put in a key word; it brings up pictures. "

Temple Grandin

Pictures

Mind

" Some people with autism who don't talk, all they hear are vowel sounds. Like if I said 'cup,' they might just hear 'uh.' "

Temple Grandin

Talk

People

" When you take a drug to treat high blood pressure or diabetes, you have an objective test to measure blood pressure and the amount of sugar in the blood. It is straight-forward. With autism, you are looking for changes in behavior. "

" We have got to work on keeping these children engaged with the world. "